"To Protect & Serve" (Animated music video against police brutality) (Patreon)

"To Protect & Serve" (Animated music video against police brutality)

Thanks to Carlton Matthews / Lil Saucy Knuckles for animating ► https://instagram.com/lilsaucy.knuckles LYRICS: We’re only here to protect and serve If we suspect you’ll interfere then you’ll get what you deserve We’re only here to protect and serve How many necks must we crush ‘til the lesson’s learned? We’re only here to protect and serve It seems policing can attract a certain type of psychopath who can’t be satisfied without asserting mindless violent acts and when the suspected perp’s a guy that’s black, society’s fine with that? Apparently not, that’s why they’re reciting the riot act Riots are the language of the unheard, who can’t speak and how can you speak one word if you can’t breathe? And how can you breathe with policemens' knees across your throat When politicians speak against it they just lost the vote And what, we’re supposed to believe we’re equal, but we’re not supposed to live it? Well most of us are close to the limit and won’t admit it The status quo’s hoping all those soaps are soporific but now the clips captured on our own phones are so horrific folks won’t forget it quick, they’re prone to go ballistic yet history leaves the deepest lesions on its most outspoken critics There have been legions that have pledged allegiance against prejudice from police to priests, who breach the peace, religious fundamentalists You get the gist, it could be just the smallest portion of our law enforcement but reason calls for us to treat them all with caution If there’s good cops and bad cops riding side by side Then the good cops should stop the bad cops who try to hide We’re only here to protect and serve If we suspect you’ll interfere then you’ll get what you deserve We’re only here to protect and serve How many necks must we crush ‘til the lesson’s learned? We’re only here to protect and serve I'm so sick of seeing people of colour being treated as other Each of us bleeds when we’re cut, but who’s cleaning the blood up? Human beings, do you see the missing piece of the puzzle? Specifically, it’s difficult to speak when groups of people are muzzled You wonder why people would turn up to the words of Malcolm X after hundreds of years of treatment without worth, without respect? When Kaepernick kneeled it was disrespect but it’s standard practice to kneel on a citizen’s neck? Seems to be a way to keep the dissidents in check How can you play the hand you’re dealt when you’re given a different deck? Maybe my words are ignorant, maybe I’m virtue signalling but it’s way worse to sit indifferent to the hurt you’re witnessing to turn away as they inflict it on an undeserving victim They’ll commit the worst of sins while still insisting they’re a Christian Burning bridges, burning crosses, what the fck’s this system A godless religion at odds with its mission but still We’re only here to protect and serve If we suspect you’ll interfere then you’ll get what you deserve We’re only here to protect and serve How many necks must we crush ‘til the lesson’s learned? We’re only here to protect and serve This song is also available on Spotify: Dan Bull - "To Protect And Serve" from the forthcoming album "Straight Past Compton"